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Creating Cross Sections In Drawing Mode

Creating Cross Sections In Drawing Mode

Creating Cross Sections In Drawing Mode

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I have two parts that will be bonded togther with epoxy.  Since these parts are not physically touching at assembly, the epoxy gap shows up as a blank space in the drawing.  I would like to cross-hatch the blank space in the drawing mode so that the epoxy region can be shown.  It would be too difficult to model the epoxy and then insert it into the assembly.

Any ideas if cross-sections can be created in the drawing mode?  In 2D drawing packages, one could select lines that would create a closed loop and everything inside the loop would be cross-hatched.

Thanks for your help.

TCGT

RE: Creating Cross Sections In Drawing Mode

You can create draft entities from the part edges and then make a closed group and cross hatch it.  From my experience this is way too labor intensive and it won't update when your model changes.  Much better to model a blob of epoxy and cutout the other two components from it.  Then you can cross hatch it, measure volume & all the other good things that come from doing it properly rather than faking it.

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